I'm using wheezy and iceweasel 10.0.12Some icons in websites viewed with iceweasel get replaced by a square with some inscription like this one: .Other browsers like chromium or epiphany are ok. I've seen this happen on omgubuntu.co.uk (menu at the top) and photobucket.com. On photobucket the site becomes unusable because I cannot tell what a button does.This does not seem to be a text encoding problem since these are icons and not characters. On the source code it appears as an empty tag: <i class="icon-angle-down"></i> and the CSS shows:.icon-angle-down:before { content: "\f107";}

Is there a problem in iceweasel or did I do something wrong?Can someone shed me some light please(I'm using wheezy and iceweasel 10.0.12)

Willynux wrote:This does not seem to be a text encoding problem since these are icons and not characters.

No, these are indeed text elements, not graphics.

Willynux wrote:Is there a problem in iceweasel or did I do something wrong?

Neither.

Willynux wrote:Even if the site is poorly done, shouldn't this be marked as a bug?

Not a browser bug, certainly. The numbnuts over at omgubuntu are trying to combine a css hack with a specific font to achieve a particular visual effect (specifically, something that looks like a pull-down). They should be boiled in oil. But it's not the browser fault, nor is it anything you did.

I've downloaded the font you mentioned (http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/) and placed in the folder /usr/share/fonts/ then restartet IceWeasel. Now I can see these iconic css hacks and use my favourite browser to navigate through omgubuntu and photobucket.

I don't understand how chromium and epiphany were able to display the icons even before I manually installed the font but anyway...

This is still a glitch in Iceweasel 37.0.2 on Debian 8 (Jessie). However, craigevil's fix works. Thank you.

A little additional, more detailed guidance would have you download the fonts file mentioned above in ZIP format, extract the ZIP file creating a new folder (e.g.--named folder "a") of several directories of fonts, and just move folder "a" that was created by the extraction to the /usr/share/fonts directory. It will look a little out of place with the versioning as part of the folder name, but that's the way it goes in /usr/share/fonts.